[1148W-{2/9/83} CD Vol. II, p. 1007]
[P. 1007] “ … we discuss the health of our poor conductor! R. observes that Jewishness is a terrible curse; no possibility, for example, of marrying a Christian woman; recently, he says, he had been thinking about Dr. Markus, an Israelite who once admitted to him amid tears that he loved R.’s sister (Caecilie) but would never be permitted to marry her, for, were he to be baptized, he would lose his practice! R. says he told this story in front of Levi, and it must have affected him deeply – the Jews, the good ones, are ‘condemned to a gently resigned asceticism.’ “ [1148W-{2/9/83} CD Vol. II, p. 1007]
[1149W-{2/11/83}The Human Womanly – (fragment) (PW Vol. VI; P. 335-336]
[P. 335] “ON THE WOMANLY IN THE HUMAN RACE (AS CONCLUSION OF ‘RELIGION AND ART' ’")
{FEUER} … if it is Marriage that raises man so far above the animal world, to highest evolution of his moral faculties, it is the abuse of marriage, for quite other ends, that is the ground of our decline below the beasts.
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[P. 336] {FEUER} Man’s severance from the animal kingdom … might be said to have been completed by the conversion of his ‘heat’ into passionate affection for the Individual, where the instinct of Species, so paramount among the beasts, almost fades away before the ideal satisfaction of the being loved by this one individual: in the woman alone, the mother, does that instinct seem to retain its sovereignty; and thus, although transfigured by his ideal love towards her individuality, she preserves a greater kinship to that nature-force than the man, whose passion now mates the fettered mother-love by turning to fidelity. Love’s loyalty: marriage; here dwells Man’s power over Nature, and divine we call it. ‘Tis the fashioner of all noble races. Their emergence from the backward lower races might easily be explained by the prevalence of monogamy over polygamy; it is certain that the noblest white race is monogamic at its first appearance in saga and history, but marches toward its downfall through polygamy with the races which it conquers.“ [1149W-{2/11/83}The Human Womanly – (fragment) (PW Vol. VI; P. 335-336]
[1150W-{2/11/83}The Human Womanly – (fragment) (PW Vol. VI; P. 337]
[P. 337] {FEUER} “This question of Polygamy versus Monogamy thus brings us to the contact of the purely-human with the ever-natural. Superior minds have called Polygamy the more natural state, and the monogamic union a perpetual defiance of Nature. Undoubtedly, polygamous tribes stand nearer to the state of Nature, and, provided no disturbing mixtures intervene, thereby preserve their purity of type with the same success as Nature keeps her breeds of beasts unchanged. Only, a remarkable individuality the polygamous can not beget, save under the influence of the ideal canon of Monogamy; a force which sometimes exerts its power, through passionate affection and love’s loyalty, in the very harems of the Orientals. It is here that the Woman herself is raised above the natural law of sex (das natuerliche Gattungsgesetz), to which, in the belief of even the wisest lawgivers, she remained so bound that the Buddha himself thought needful to exclude her from the possibility of saint-hood. It is a beautiful feature of the legend, that shows the Perfect Overcomer prompted to admit the Woman.
